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 crazy bone 名詞

 Cra·zy a.
 1. Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe.
    Piles of mean andcrazy houses.   --Macaulay.
    One of great riches, but a crazy constitution.   --Addison.
    They . . . got a crazy boat to carry them to the island.   --Jeffrey.
 2. Broken, weakened, or dissordered in intellect; shattered; demented; deranged.
    Over moist and crazy brains.   --Hudibras.
 3. Inordinately desirous; foolishly eager. [Colloq.]
    The girls were crazy to be introduced to him.   --R. B. Kimball.
 Crazy bone, the bony projection at the end of the elbow (olecranon), behind which passes the ulnar nerve; -- so called on account of the curiously painful tingling felt, when, in a particular position, it receives a blow; -- called also funny bone.
 Crazy quilt, a bedquilt made of pieces of silk or other material of various sizes, shapes, and colors, fancifully stitched together without definite plan or arrangement.
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 Fun·ny a. [Compar. Funnier superl. Funniest.]  Droll; comical; amusing; laughable; inciting laughter.
 Funny bone. See crazy bone, under Crazy.

 crazy bone
      n : a point on the elbow where the ulnar nerve passes near the
          surface; a sharp tingling sensation results when the
          nerve is knocked against the bone; "the funny bone is not
          humerus" [syn: funny bone]